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Thomas Merton (1915-68) was a Trappist monk, poet, social critic, and spiritual writer born in Prades, France. After education at Cambridge and Columbia Univ., he entered Abbey of Gethsemani, Trappist, Ky., in 1941 and was ordained as a priest in 1949. His autobiography, The Seven Storey Mountain (1948), earned international acclaim, and he is buried in the abbey cemetery. At this corner on Mar. 18, 1958, he had a sudden insight that led him to redefine his monastic identity with greater involvement in social justice issues. He was "suddenly overwhelmed with the realization that I loved all these people...." and found them "walking around shining like the sun." Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander.
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